ASUS A7V400-MX

[roglid]

I have just purchased a ASUS A7V400-MX motherboard with a AMD XP3200+
CPU. The booklet states that the FSB clock can be set to 200MHz by
adjusting the switches on the motherboard. When I adjust the switches
to 200MHz and switch on the monitor stays in standby mode. The highest
setting I can achieve to get the system working is 166MHz. This only
displays XP 2500+ and a speed of 1.83GHz. Can any tell how to get the
correct CPU to be displayed and to increase my speed.

Thanks

 

[Chachi]

I have just purchased a ASUS A7V400-MX motherboard with a AMD XP3200+
CPU. The booklet states that the FSB clock can be set to 200MHz by
adjusting the switches on the motherboard. When I adjust the switches
to 200MHz and switch on the monitor stays in standby mode. The highest
setting I can achieve to get the system working is 166MHz. This only
displays XP 2500+ and a speed of 1.83GHz. Can any tell how to get the
correct CPU to be displayed and to increase my speed.

Thanks

What memory are you running? If it's ddr 333 or less, it might not boot
at that speed.
Although I've seen freak occurances of it booting, but not being stable
at all.

 

[Paul]

I have just purchased a ASUS A7V400-MX motherboard with a AMD XP3200+
CPU. The booklet states that the FSB clock can be set to 200MHz by
adjusting the switches on the motherboard. When I adjust the switches
to 200MHz and switch on the monitor stays in standby mode. The highest
setting I can achieve to get the system working is 166MHz. This only
displays XP 2500+ and a speed of 1.83GHz. Can any tell how to get the
correct CPU to be displayed and to increase my speed.

Thanks

The manual is incorrect. The 200Mhz switch settings are transposed.
Did you see the posting by "Jose Luis" above yours ? It is
on the same topic.

Could you do me a favor ? Could you read the numbers and letters
off the top of the clock generator chip ? None of the pictures
I have access to, of this board, show the numbers. The clock
generator is next to the floppy connector and pretty near DSW.
It could be an ICS chip, from icst.com . (The PDF datasheets
for that company's chips are at http://www.icst.com/pdf/)

If I can figure out what chip it is, I can give you a table
of all possible switch settings. Since Asus gets custom designs
from ICST (to prevent cloners from making an identical board),
it isn't always possible to get the datasheet, but an adjacent
chip number will usually have similar settings.

Paul